Seasons & episodes

S11 · E22Wishbone 1966-02-19 · 45 min＋

Festus has a habit of using the wishbone from a dead chicken for making wishes on. When he comes across Doc Adams, alone and snakebit, he uses that wish to help him, if it can. Meanwhile, Matt searches for three outlaws who held up a stage, killing the driver and guard.

An outlaw gang shoots it out fleeing Dodge City. When one of them is injured real bad, he hides out in the church where the reverend is fearful but not for himself.

S11 · E24Honor Before Justice 1966-03-05 · 45 min＋

The Osage Council has found Two Bears guilty of murder. His daughter rides into Dodge seeking Matt's help. Matt is out of town chasing horse thieves, so Thad tries to help. He finds out that he and Matt are really riding the same trail.

S11 · E25The Brothers 1966-03-12 · 45 min＋

Billy has always looked up to his brother Ed. During a robbery gone wrong, he is arrested. Matt begins to open Billy's naive eyes when his brother tries to free him from jail.

S11 · E26Which Dr. 1966-03-19 · 45 min＋

Buffalo hunters kidnap Doc and Festus. Guest starring R.G. Armstrong, George Lindsey, Gregg Palmer, and Shelley Morrison (Trivia: directed by James Arness' kid brother Peter Graves just prior to his finding fame as Jim Phelps on Mission: Impossible.)

S11 · E27Harvest 1966-03-26 · 45 min＋

Some homesteaders have chosen a piece of land that is free to use per the government, but Ben Payson has other ideas. When his daughter starts to care about the homesteaders' son, Ben decides to force them off the property regardless the cost.

S11 · E28By Line 1966-04-09 · 45 min＋

The new newspaper in town seems to be in the business of fomenting trouble, starting with its employment as a reporter of the illiterate Festus.

S11 · E29Treasure of John Walking Fox 1966-04-16 · 45 min＋

When old Jacob is shot dead in self defense, his loyal Indian partner, John Walking Fox, starts paying for things with $50 gold pieces, and he becomes the talk of the town, and a target for would be robbers.

S11 · E30My Father, My Son 1966-04-23 · 45 min＋

Fast gunman Jim Barrett kills a man in self defense. Now the man's father and brothers are gunning for him, in addition to a young man who wants Barrett dead for a different reason.

S11 · E31Parson Comes to Town 1966-04-30 · 45 min＋

A mysterious man rides into town and says he is after one of two men responsible for killing his brother. When he starts crowding a stranger in town, Matt must decide how to make sure he doesn't take the law into his own hands.

S11 · E32Prime of Life 1966-05-07 · 45 min＋

Kyle Stoner is fast with a gun and likes to prove it. When he mixes with the wrong crowd and goes up against Matt, his father gets involved and he is a friend as well as an ex-lawman.

S12 · E1Snap Decision 1966-09-17 · 45 min＋

Disturbed over being forced to kill a prisoner who was trying to save his life, Matt Dillion turns in his badge.

S12 · E2The Goldtakers 1966-09-24 · 45 min＋

A gang of thieves commandeers the Dodge City blacksmith shop to divide a gigantic bar of gold.

S12 · E3The Jailer 1966-10-01 · 45 min＋

Six years after her husband's hanging, Ma Stone plots her revenge against Matt Dillon by first kidnapping Kitty to use as a lure and then jailing Matt to be hanged on the morning of the second day with Kitty watching as her man died.

S12 · E4The Mission 1966-10-08 · 45 min＋

Marshal Dillon is helped by an apparently friendly young runaway who later faces him as a deadly adversary.

S12 · E5The Good People 1966-10-15 · 45 min＋

A respectable rancher and his son hang an innocent man and allow a bewhiskered bounty hunter to go on trial for the murder.

S12 · E6Gunfighter, R.I.P. 1966-10-22 · 45 min＋

A gunfighter (McGavin) hired to murder Matt Dillion gets wounded while trying to save the life of an elderly Chinese man.

S12 · E7The Wrong Man 1966-10-29 · 45 min＋

Hootie Kyle is a poor but honest farmer whose credit has run out. Matt Dillon and Festus lend him some money, then he gets swindled out of it in a poker game. Later Hootie gets circumstantially framed for the murder of the card shark who swindled him.

S12 · E8The Whispering Tree 1966-11-12 · 45 min＋

After eight years in a prison for robbery a farmer returns home and hopes to find the stolen fortune he had buried under a tree.

S12 · E9The Well 1966-11-19 · 45 min＋

All of Dodge City is suffering from a drought. A rainmaker (Guy Raymond) tries to put an end to it before the town's public well, their last source of water, runs dry.

S12 · E10Stage Stop 1966-11-26 · 45 min＋

Doc Adams takes up arms to defend a gold shipment from bandits, first during a stagecoach ambush and then at a weigh station. He is aided by a blind man and a wounded man in the battle against the bandits.

S12 · E11The Newcomers 1966-12-03 · 45 min＋

Lars Karlgren, a Scandinavian immigrant and his teenage son Petter, find the West even wilder than they had imagined when they settle in Dodge City. Petter gets framed for a murder of a man who was picking a fight with him.

S12 · E12Quaker Girl 1966-12-10 · 45 min＋

The identity of a criminal is confused with that of deputy marshal Thad, when a Quaker party rescues the pair from a do-or-die fight.

S12 · E13The Moonstone 1966-12-17 · 45 min＋

A young farmer's former partner-in-crime, girlfriend and slow-witted brother figure in the discovery of his forgotten past.